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LINING FOR PRESERVING CANS.

No. 548,099. Patented 0015.15, 1895:

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No. 548,099. Patented Oct. 15,1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

HENRY THOMPSON, on LoNDoN, ENGLAND.

L lNING FOR PRESERVlNG-CANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,099, dated October15, 1895.

Application filed September 11, 1894. Serial No. 522,732. (No modeL) To00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY THOMPSON, gentleman, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, residing at No. 86 Isledon Road, Islington, in the cityof London, England, have invented certain new and useful improvements inmeans for preparing and preserving in tins or ornamenting for the tabletongues or other articles of food, of which the following is aspecification.

According to the ordinary method of preserving tongues and the like theyare, after having been partially cooked, placed within the tin in whichthey are to be preserved and then submitted to pressure, which causesthem to take the form of the tin and lie close against the sidesthereof.

Now the objects of the present invention, as far as they relate topreservation of food by tinning, are to avoid the large surfacecontactof the tongue or the like with the interior of the tin, to give theretoa better form, and to surround or cover the same with a regular andornamental covering of gelatine, jelly, or the like.

A further object of the invention is to give an ornamental andattractive appearance to tongues and the like intended for immediate useupon the table instead of for preserving by tinning.

In order that the said invention may be more clearly understood andreadily carried into efiect, I will describe the same with reference tothe accompanying drawings, and for convenience I will describe it inconnection with the preservation or ornamentation of tongues; but itwill be understood that the invention is equally applicable to otherarticles of food capable of similar treatment.

Figure 1 is a plan or top view representing an opened tin of preservedtongue prepared according to the present invention, the top plate beingremoved. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 1 1 of Fig. 1,but showing the tin complete. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the tongueembedded in jelly and turned-out of the tin, the distance strip or bandand the top and bottom plates being removed. Fig. 4 is an outside faceview of a portion of the distance strip or band separately. Fig. 5 is aplan or edge view thereof. Fig. 6 is an inside view of one of the top orbottom plates, and Fig. '7 is a plan or edge view representing aslightly-modified'form or pattern of a strip or band.

In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters ofreference.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 6, a representsa tin of ordinary construction,whileb represents a preserved tongue contained therein.

In carrying the invention into effect the tongue is first partiallycooked by boiling and is then placed in a mold or cylinder (not shown)formed of any suitable material capable of resisting considerablepressure, and it is then submitted to pressure by means of a pistonforced into the mold, so that it is consolidated and caused to assumethe form of the mold. After this preliminary operation the compressedtongue b is allowed to cool and is then removed from the press andplaced within a tin a of considerably larger diameter than thecompressed tongue b, and between the tongue 17 and the tin a isinterposed a strip or band 0, of metal, cardboard, or other suitablematerial, transversely corrugated, (or it might be fluted, studded, orotherwise formed, as hereinafter described,) to constitute adistance-piece, which, when bent into a circular form around the tongueI), as represented more particularly at Fig. 1, will come into contactwith the tongue I) only at certain points in its circumference, so thatcollectively the points of contact 0' amount to comparatively a smallsurface.

Beneath the tongue I) and upon the top thereof are arranged plates ordisks (1, of metal or other suitable material, formed or provided withdistance pieces or studs at, having the same object as the corrugationsof the strip or band 0, after which the tin or is filled up with jelly e6* or other suitable material and is closed, with the exception of theordinary air-hole, (notshown,) and treated in the ordinary way ofpreserving food by canning.

Upon opening a tin of tongue preserved in the manner above described itwill be found,

as represented at Figs. 1 and 2, that the tongue is entirely surroundedby a coating of gelatine 0r jelly e 6*, intersected or divided by thedistancepiece or band a, and upon turning out the contents of the tin aand stripping off the top and bottom plates (1 and the strip or band bygrasping one of the ends 0 and thus removing the part 6* of the jelly,the tongue I) will remain surrounded by a part c of the jelly,constituting an ornamental coating of jelly, taking the undulating formof the corrugations of the strip or band 0, as represented at Fig. 3.The ornamental appearance of the gelatinous coating 6 is in some casesfurther improved by forming in the band or strip a and upon the top andbottom plates 01 recessed or raised letters or other devicesrepresenting the name or initials of the manufacturer, as represented inthe drawings or an ornamental pattern or device.

In some cases the plate or disk d at the bottom of the tongue I) may bedispensed with, and the strip or band 0 may be employed around thetongue I) in conjunction with the plate cl over the top thereof, or thetop and bottom plates 01 may both be dispensed with and the strip orband 0 around the tongue b employed alone. i

The gelatine or jelly may have a suitable proportion of alcohol or otherpreservative material combined therewith, whereby the tongue will remainfor a longer period in a good and wholesome condition after having beenremoved from the tin.

In the example given at Fig. 7 is shown a strip or band 0, in which thenecessary distance, thickness, and minute points of con-v tact c areobtained by imparting a modified shape thereto. It will be evident thatthe same object may be obtained by forming simple studs or projectionsthereon, as represented at Fig.8, or by fluting the strip or band 0, asrepresented at Fig. 9, or other shapes may be devised which will answerthe same purpose, as will be readily understood.

By the means hereinbefore described the article of food is rendered moreattractive in appearance than heretofore.

In applying the invention to an article of food-.for example, atongue-in order to ornament the same for the table, the tongue iscompletely cooked previous to being submitted to the preliminarypressure, and it is atterward placed in an open tin and surrounded bythe strip or band 0 and, if desired, by the top and bottom plates d,orone of them. The tin is then filled with gelatine or jelly, and afterthe same has become set the tongue is removed from the tin, and thestrip a and the plates cl are removed in the manner hereinbeforedescribed, when the tongue is ready for the table.

Tongues or other articles of food surrounded by an ornamental coating ofjelly in the manner lastly hereinbefore described will have a muchbetter appearance upon the table than when treated in the ordinary way.

W'hat I claim is- 1. The combination of a tin adapted to receive anarticle of food to be preserved, with a strip or band formed withcorrugations or projections and adapted to act as a distance piece forholding the article of food in a central position in the tin out ofcontact therewith, and impart an ornamental surface to the gelatine orother substance which surrounds the food, substantially as explained.

2. The combination of a tin adapted to re ceive an article of food to bepreserved, with plates formed with corrugations or projections on theirinner faces and adapted to be placed at top and bottom of the tin tokeep the food out of contact therewith and impart an ornamental surfaceto the gelatine or other material with which the food is surrounded,substantially as set forth,

HENRY THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. VAUGHAN, ALFRED GERALD FooKs.

